Was Einstein a plagiarist? A theoretical physicist at the University of Nevada has published a paper alleging that Einstein did not derive the gravitational field equations at the heart of the General Theory of Relativity, and might in fact have copied key equations from fellow physicist David Hilbert. [...]
"My analysis of Hilbert's mutilated proofs therefore cannot prove that Einstein copied from Hilbert," [Friedwardt Winterberg] says. "It proves less, which is that it cannot be proved that Einstein could not have copied from Hilbert. But it proves that Hilbert had not copied from Einstein [...]"
